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Neuroscientists listened in on people’s brains for a week. They found order and chaos.
Ghuman, Wang, and their colleagues turned to people who were undergoing brain surgery for epilepsy. Some people with severe or otherwise untreatable epilepsy opt to have the small parts of their brain that trigger their seizures surgically removed. Before any operation, they may have electrodes implanted in their brains for a week or so. During […] More
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in TechWhy detecting AI-generated text is so difficult (and what to do about it)
This tool is OpenAI’s response to the heat it’s gotten from educators, journalists, and others for launching ChatGPT without any ways to detect text it has generated. However, it is still very much a work in progress, and it is woefully unreliable. OpenAI says its AI text detector correctly identifies 26% of AI-written text as […] More
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in TechHere comes Bard, Google’s version of ChatGPT
Under intense pressure to compete with ChatGPT — the buzzy AI chatbot that has become a viral sensation — Google announced on Monday that it’s releasing its own “experimental conversational AI” tool, called “Bard.” The company also said it will add new AI–powered features to Google search. Google will first give Bard access to a […] More
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Here comes Bard, Google’s version of ChatGPT
Under intense pressure to compete with ChatGPT — the buzzy AI chatbot that has become a viral sensation — Google announced on Monday that it’s releasing its own “experimental conversational AI” tool, called “Bard.” The company also said it will add new AI–powered features to Google search. Google will first give Bard access to a […] More
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in TechThe original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video
Set up in 2018, Runway has been developing AI-powered video-editing software for several years. Its tools are used by TikTokers and YouTubers as well as mainstream movie and TV studios. The makers of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert used Runway software to edit the show’s graphics; the visual effects team behind the hit movie […] More
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in TechThe Download: trapped by grief algorithms, and image AI privacy issues
—Tate Ryan-Mosley, senior tech policy reporter I’ve always been a super-Googler, coping with uncertainty by trying to learn as much as I can about whatever might be coming. That included my father’s throat cancer. I started Googling the stages of grief, and books and academic research about loss, from the app on my iPhone, intentionally […] More
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When my dad was sick, I started Googling grief. Then I couldn’t escape it.
I am a mostly visual thinker, and thoughts pose as scenes in the theater of my mind. When my many supportive family members, friends, and colleagues asked how I was doing, I’d see myself on a cliff, transfixed by an omniscient fog just past its edge. I’m there on the brink, with my parents and […] More
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in TechThe trials of Elon Musk
Elon Musk and Tesla had been discovered not answerable for buyers’ losses after Musk tweeted in 2018 that funding had been secured to take Tesla personal, in a class-action lawsuit that was a lot watched due to its high-profile defendant. It marked the second time in recent months that Musk appeared in court docket to […] More
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in TechAI fashions spit out images of actual individuals and copyrighted photos
Stable Diffusion is open supply, that means anybody can analyze and examine it. Imagen is closed, however Google granted the researchers entry. Singh says the work is a superb instance of how necessary it’s to provide analysis entry to those fashions for evaluation, and he argues that firms needs to be equally clear with different […] More
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in TechThe Download: preventing being pregnant misinformation, and the ethics of organ donations
The must-reads I’ve combed the web to seek out you at the moment’s most enjoyable/necessary/scary/fascinating tales about know-how. 1 A suspected Chinese ‘spy balloon’ is flying over the USOfficials are hesitant to shoot it down in case it injures somebody. (BBC)+ The balloon doesn’t pose a menace to folks on the bottom. (WSJ $)+ How […] More
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in TechA Massachusetts invoice may enable prisoners to swap their organs for his or her freedom
Doctors routinely ask would-be donors about their well being, well-being, and talent to take care of themselves and whether or not they smoke or take leisure medication. These components will have an effect on not solely whether or not their organs are appropriate for donation however how possible they’re to recuperate nicely from the process. […] More
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How Indian health-care staff use WhatsApp to avoid wasting pregnant ladies
Over the previous 5 years, Patil has skilled tons of of ASHAs from completely different states to make use of WhatsApp to debunk false info. Maya Patil, an ASHA from Maharashtra’s Kutwad village, says she’s seen comparable constructive outcomes after utilizing WhatsApp. She’s been working within the area for 13 years, and in 2018 she […] More
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